Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWeak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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